With birthdays less than two weeks apart, and schedules too busy to navigate, my husband and I have a tradition of having a single celebratory birthday dinner for the both of us, but making sure to go all out on it. Planning for this occasion, we bro...

As a six-year-old child in 1948, Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, who was born in the village of Berweh, witnessed first-hand the total obliteration of his home as a result of the establishment of the Israeli state. Though the village is now visibly...

The United States will deduct EGP 2.5 billion (USD 130 million) from Egypt’s EGP 5.7 billion (USD 300 million) annual foreign military aid due to the Biden administration’s concerns over Egypt’s human rights conditions, according to an unnamed ...

Following approval from the Cabinet, Egypt’s Ministry of Finance will be minting EGP 2 coin for the first time, as per Al Ahram. Currently, the country mints 25 piasters, 50 piastres as well one pound coins. The latter have seen a renovation in its...

Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi and Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani signed on Wednesday, 14 August, three memoranda of understanding (MoUs) in Qatar, Doha, with the aim of strengthening cooperation between the two countries, a st...

The king – or queen in this case – is dead, long live the king; a seemingly contradictory phrase that accurately describes how Queen Elizabeth’s death on 8 September – and Charle’s consequent coronation – simultaneously marks the end of a...

The deep sound of the aulos, a double-reed flute, echoes across the Roman amphitheater, where a crowd of Egyptians and Romans, clad in the best linen and togas, admiringly sit in silence. Upon the end of the last note, a wave of deafening applause en...

Egyptian wrestler Samar Hamza made history on Tuesday, 13 September as the first Egyptian woman to reach the World Championship final in Serbia. Hamza defeated Estonia’s Epp Mäe with a 3-2 win in the 76 kg+ freestyle semi-final at the World Champi...

Tucked behind a Maspero construction site is a narrow alley, punctuated with small shops and idle fruit vendors. They sit on the sidewalk and cool themselves with feather fans used to air grilled corn. Out on the street are a few scattered men sellin...

The Cairo Economic Court of Appeal acquitted Ahmed Bassam Zaki, on Monday, 13 September, of ‘misusing’ social media, according to local media reports. Zaki was sentenced to three years in prison in December 2020 by the Economic Court for charges ...